Joint committee

And they do point to something that actually came up on Friday.

There was a, uh, hearing by the Joint Committee on AI, um, one of the many inquiries that are happening at the federal and state level at the moment.

Everyone fancies themselves a bit of an AI expert at the moment-

I know

That led to the International Men's Day events that I established, with almost 400 people attending the most recent event and more than $150,000 raised from men's charities.

It also led to my establishment of the Men's Wellbeing Parliamentary Forum and recently the Joint Committee on improving men's mental health and well-being.

But for me, it has never just been about statistics.

As a mother, I want boys to grow up knowing there is something good about being a man.

You've done a lot of legislative work.

And it's led to that work more recently in the Joint Committee.

Yes.

Can you tell us about the Joint Committee in layman's terms? Yes.

Right.

Nice and simply.

Yes, that's it in a nutshell.

It's very simple, but very complicated at the same time.

So let's just kind of take a step back.

And the initially right after 9-11, there was a joint committee, a joint investigation carried out by a joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee.

I was chaired by Senator Bob Graham and Representative Peter Goss.

And they did the initial inquiry into what transpired around 9-11.

and ended up back in Saudi Arabia.

And the early efforts to write about it, the FBI did investigate this initially.

It was written up as part of the joint committee investigation.

But those were referred to as the 28 pages of the report that were redacted or blacked out.

So...

Parliamentary Joint Committee, to

me, that took it up a level.

you've got really a public hearing about whether class actions are money-making enterprises or recoveries.

The majority's ultimate conclusion that the bill should pass sits unreconciled with the gravity of the evidence that was put before it.

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights report on the NDIS Bill provides a remarkable contrast to the enabling majority report of the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee.

The Joint Committee's deep consideration of the impact of this Bill on disability rights in the country surely called for an equivalent degree of rights focus deliberation among parliamentarians in both houses when they were considering whether the bill should be passed sadly this has proven to be far from the case The rights impacting consequences that will follow the successful passage of this bill are a cause of grave concern for many of us.

Bills to study full enfranchisement for incarcerated people were introduced to both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly in 2023 and 2025.

They were each referred to the Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections, but haven't seen much progress beyond that.

The 2023 bill received mixed feedback from the public, with those in favor of the bill saying full voting rights for all citizens are central to a functioning democracy.

Those who oppose the legislation say voting is a right that belongs only to law-abiding citizens, but Jeter feels people are hiding behind the guise of public safety.